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To: Cogito who wrote (4204)	7/10/1996 8:49:00 PM
From: Troy Shaw	of 58324

>>The important thing I discovered is that the statement, "the LS-120 technology was developed by Iomega and sold to Compaq," which has been repeated in this forum by me and others, is really not true. At best, it's a gross oversimplification of the facts, and at worst, just flat wrong.<< You missed a BIG piece of the puzzle in your post in "3M LS-120 Beyond the zip" thread. Iomega had a functioning proto-type of a +100MB Floptical, before they killed the project in favor of the Zip. Later, it was sold to Ocean Radio. My understanding is that the LS120 is essentially the same drive that Iomega had working more than 2 years ago. It uses the holographic optical track following technique (patented by Iomega), and the media is laser etched (patented by Iomega). One of Iomega's biggest contributions to Floptical technology was to use laser etching on the media to create the optical tracks, as opposed to the normal imprinting method. Laser etching made the media much more reliable, because there were not huge peeks and valleys that would smooth out over time as the head passed over it (as was the case with the imprinting method). This helped reduce both media and head wear.

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